Thermoluminescence and new 14C age estimates for late quaternary loesses in southwestern Nebraska

Geomorphology

Volumn 17, Issue 1-3 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 115-128

  Maat, Paula B ^a,c   Johnson, William C ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Luzenac America   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERGLACIAL; INTERSTADIAL; LOESS CHRONOLOGY; QUATERNARY (LATE); SAND DUNE; TL DATING;

USA, NEBRASKA;

EID: 0030435230     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-555x(95)00099-q     Document Type: Article

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